Colonial America important characters

Winthrop

The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Bradford

Governor of Plymouth Colony

William Penn

English quaker who fought for religious freedom and founded Pennyslvania

Roger Williams

Founder of Rhode Island and advocate for religious freedom

Anne Hutchinson

A Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island.

Anne Bradstreet

The first woman to be recognized as an accomplished new world poet

Sir Walter Raleigh

sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina. It failed and is known as " The Lost Colony."

Powhatan

Chief of the Powhatan Confederacy and father to Pocahontas. At the time of the English settlement of Jamestown in 1607, he was a friend to John Smith and John Rolfe.

Who was John Rolfe

The Jamestown colonist who introduced the tobacco crop to the colony and husband of Pocahontas

Who was John Smith

Leader of Jamestown

Who was Pocahontas

Native American who helped Jamestown survive

Who was Squanto

A native American who helped the first pilgrims survive by translating and teaching them how to farm and catch fish

Who was Nathaniel Hawthorne

He wrote The Scarlet Letter